Fencing

Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence
While George Silver's Paradoxes of Defense was published in 1599, the Brief Instructions, which is the book which actually explains how to use various weapons instead of merely lecturing about why rapiers are so bad, was apparently not published until a copy of the manuscript was discovered in the British Museum, and was subsequently printed in 1898 by Captain Cyril G. R. Matthey. The manuscript was not dated, but it mentions Saviolo's book, which was published in 1595. A useful introduction to this book may be found in Three Elizabethan Fencing Manuals, by James L. Jackson.

Paradoxes of Defense
George Silver's Paradoxes of Defense was published in 1599. A companion volume, Brief Instructions Upon Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence, was not published until 1898 by Captain Cyril G. R. Matthey, based on a manuscript found in the British Museum. Today, this book is available in two editions: one, containing both books from the 1898 edition and a useful introduction, is in Three Elizabethan Fencing Manuals, edited by James L. Jackson, and the other is a facsimile of only the 1599 edition of Paradoxes, published by Da Capo Press, Amsterdam, 1968.